The Positive Power of NO redux
by From Volume 16, Issue 8:It’s been 20 years since we published The Positive Power of NO: How that little word you love to hate can make or break your business.
Child-like? Or child-ish?
From Volume 16, Issue 7: Most of us can be and have been both Jekyll and Hyde. But why do we present ourselves so differently at different times? And so extremely?
It ain’t fair
Fair strikes me as an interesting albeit elusive concept. TV’s delivery of baseball games is a good place to see this in action. On your …
The right kind thing
From Volume 16, Issue 5:What’s the best thing to do? What’s right? Or what’s kind? It depends on your goal, I suppose. If I’m in a contest that I really want to win… or perhaps must win (to relieve financial stress), then I will definitely put all my efforts into being right.
You’ve been lied to.
From Volume 16, Issue 4:I’ve often commented that I, and most Baby Boomers in my situation, were born at a fortunate time and place and to parents who, from their experiences in life (Great Depression, WWII, Post-War recovery) were well suited to teach me the ways of life.
Permission
From Volume 16, Issue 3: It’s virtually impossible for me to learn something (add or change a belief, initiate or learn a skill, etc.) when I believe I know the subject matter. Almost inevitably I will take the information that someone is trying to teach me and compare it against what I already know. And then, with no motivation to do otherwise, I’ll discount it, or even argue with it either covertly or overtly.